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NAPKIN 
a handkerchief 
NATURAL 
an idiot 
NAYWARD 
towards denial 
NAYWORD 
a catch-word, by-word 
NEB 
the beak 
NEELD 
a needle 
NEIF 
hand 
NEPHEW 
a grandson 
NETHER-STOCKS 
stockings 
NEXT 
nearest 
NICE 
foolish 
NICK 
score or reckoning, to brand with folly 
NIGHTED 
black as night 
NIGHT-RULE 
nightly solemnity 
NINE MEN'S MORRIS 
a place set apart for a Morris dance by nine men 
NINNY 
a fool, jester 
NOBILITY 
nobleness 
NOBLE 
a coin
NODDY 
a dolt 
NOOK-SHOTTEN 
indented with bays and creeks 
NOURISH 
a nurse 
NOVUM 
a game at dice 
NOWL 
head 
NUTHOOK 
a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief 

Interpreting Elizabethan / Shakespearean Manuscripts and Original Documents
 

Vital, but little known, information about the Elizabethan alphabet is essential when looking at copies of original manuscripts of the period - examples of which can be found in Shakespeare's ' First Folio '. Learning the alphabet used during the Elizabethan era will no doubt clarify many questions that the differences of the Tudor / Elizabethan alphabet have raised such as "Couldn't Elizabethans spell properly?" and "Why is there so much confusion with the letters 'u' and 'v' and 'i' and 'j' ?Shakespeare translations and understanding the real meanings behind some of the Shakespeare language in the great plays and sonnets can be difficult. And this is hardly surprising when the expressions and their meanings have been obsolete since the Elizabethan era!


William Shakespeare Education - the Elizabethan Alphabet - Differences only 24 letters - Deciphering manuscripts of the era

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